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Biometrics in Blood Banks (B cube):

The major concern of Blood Bank is to maintain the Quality of Blood as well as to identify the Professional Donors. Regulations required that donors be positively identified each time they donated blood, but the problem is donors don't always have their government-issued identification card, such as a driving license. IDs weren't the only problem either. Data entry errors were leading to duplicate records and it came down to names and date of birth weren't good enough for record keeping.

The system to be proposed should enable the blood banks to search for and positively identify blood donors more efficiently, while detecting and preventing duplicate donor records, protecting donor privacy and eliminating errors associated with manual registration, and the technology should ensure a safer blood supply.

The pinpointed technology, biometrics will allow the banks to operate even more safely, securely and efficiently. It’s easy and always with a donor, unlike an ID card. This will also protect and preserve our environment through the reduced use of paper products. 

Biometric technology is now becoming the preferred authentication and identification option for patient, donor and consumer access, virtually eliminating clerical errors, reduced check-in times and lowered overall operating costs.

We can say with confidence that the blood centers, transfusion facilities and hospitals equipped with biometric technology, will continue to grow, as the security and convenience provided by biometrics in eliminating cards and passwords enhances the identification experience for donors and staff.

Regards,

Inttelix 

Biometrics in Corporations and Manufacturing Facilities

Over the past decade, there has been substantial growth in global business, of which the manufacturing industry plays a large part. This, accompanied by an increase in intelligent manufacturing equipment, increased connectivity of equipment and software both internally within a company, and with external partners has led to an increase in the probability of attacks and threats to these systems. Combine this with the current events and the additional requirements of governmental regulation, and several businesses in advanced manufacturing have to increase both physical and logical security.

Corporations and manufacturing facilities allocate significant funds to protect access to their physical facilities as well as proprietary information. From legal documents to employee personnel information to dedicated servers, businesses house highly-secure equipment and information and restricting access to select personnel can be a challenge.

Biometrics will play a major role in different industries, from medicine, science, robotics, engineering, manufacturing and all areas of vertical enterprise businesses. Employers use biometric technologies to record time and attendance, monitor physical access to high security locations, and control network access by mobile employees. The most mature uses of the biometrics are surveillance and screening applications, access control and citizen identification. The number of customer care applications is also increasing.

Fingerprint scanners are easy to install and administer, and eliminate the cost and security risks associated with access cards and pin numbers. Using a fingerprint biometric can also help companies save by eliminating “buddy punching.”  With Integrated Biometrics (Face+Fingerprint) owning the entire product chain, from technology development to customer service and management solutions, they can provide any number of customizable options that provide a corporation with greater security while maintaining cost efficiencies.

Regards,

INTTELIX 

Fingerprint Biometrics: Fast And Simple Way To Reduce Inventory Shrink And Eliminate Payroll Fraud

One of today's biggest concerns for retailers is how they can properly secure their retail point of sale systems. They also must protect their sensitive business information including their costs, sales numbers, profit margins, etc. One dishonest employee or unscrupulous outside hacker can trigger a very large—and very expensive—disaster.

Shrink caused by theft from employees, customers and organized retail criminals is a growing problem, accentuated in part by the use of employee POS authentication processes that have proven to be less than fully effective. 

Nearly every available retail point of sale system allows retailers to assign a unique password to each cashier. But if even one password is stolen or misused, your retail point of sale system is vulnerable to attack. Once inside your retail software, the intruder could change prices, lower the quantity on hand, delete items, steal your customer list, or take any number of other damaging actions. 

And if the retail point of sale system was accessed with a stolen or hacked password, finding the responsible party can be almost impossible. These concerns for business safety are spurring POS companies to incorporate biometrics into their retail software and point of sale hardware. 

  

How Do  Biometrics Fingerprint Reader Work?

When an employee logs into the retail point of sale system, he must enter his user ID. But instead of typing his password, he simply scans his thumb or finger on the biometric fingerprint reader. Any time the employee attempts to access a password-protected area of the retail point of sale software, he is required to scan his finger. 

This increased employee accountability can help protect you from costly damage to your data, whether intentional or accidental. Installing and implementing biometrics in your retail business can give you added peace of mind—you'll rest easier knowing that the data you depend on is safe and secure. 

As biometric technology has improved and more point of sale products have become available, biometrics have become affordable to retailers of all sizes. So whether you're already running a retail point of sale system or you're shopping around, you may want to consider the added security of biometrics.

Regrads,

Inttelix 

Applications of Biometrics in Health Care Industry

We hear all the time about the mistakes that are made within our healthcare system these days.  Records are mixed up, medical charts are confused, and the wrong medication is given to the wrong patient.  Privacy in healthcare is a huge issue in these days, especially given the fact that most computer networks are vulnerable to attack or intrusion. 

There is a desperate race going on to find the best method of securing your data and preventing mistakes with consequences that range from embarrassing to deadly. Healthcare has struggled with pinpointing a technology that will solve the problem of patient misidentification and the impact it has on the quality of care, patient safety, and the financial health of the industry.

Finally, a solution has been found. Biometrics has revolutionized the healthcare security industry.  Biometrics devices can take unique information about you from your eye, or your hand print, or your thumb print and use it to identify you.  Biometrics is making it possible for patients and healthcare professionals both to feel secure that their information is being kept confidential and only being released to those who have the right to see it.

Using biometrics for patient identification has not only addressed these problems but it has also drastically altered the functionality of biometric technology from a resource to weed out miscreants to a life or death identification tool. 

Medical facilities who once struggled with problems of

• Medical identity theft
• Patient misidentification
• Sending a baby home with the wrong mother
• The proliferation of duplicate medical records
• someone without authorization is trying to access patient’s secure data

Can now use biometric identification technology too accurately and identify patients to safeguard health and prevent unnecessary and financially taxing medical treatment.

In this struggling economy, those in the healthcare industry have realized that the money needed to invest in biometric technology is outweighed by the money they will lose to fraud, fraud prevention and the consequences of mistakes that could have been prevented if they were using the technology.  They are jumping on the biometric bandwagon in droves.  This is a fast growing industry, and it’s changing the look of healthcare security rapidly.

Regards,

Inttelix